Ed Winfield Pic

[qmdv]

Was going through a few pics and thought I would share this pic of Ed in his number 1 car. I like the tuned intake. His engine was what he called his two up two down. Refering to the special crank he made to give a firing order of 1,3,2,4 that way the intake ports were 180 out. He knew how to tune a T.



I met ED in 1976.


That is from left to right, Kong Jackson, Ed Winfield and myself checking out my Cook 4 port on a B motor. That is one of Kong's one off ignisions. I learned a lot that day.

Tim

[28-31]

That's incredible -- what was Ed like? I've heard and read that he was rather reclusive. Did you learn any tips/tricks straight from the master? What did he think of your set-up?

[qmdv]

Kong was quite famous in his own right with his ignitions. He worked for Winfield when he was a teenager. He and Wes Cooper (also a friend of Winfields and really good with bangers) put the event together. We called it Winfield Weekend. The first year was 1976. To get to go you had to have a Winfield equiped 4 banger.

We had about 10 cars and pickups all lined up in front of Winfields house. He came out and looked at each car and comented about the engine set up. We had Cragers, Rileys, an overhead valve set up on a "T" and a hot flathead or two and my Cook. If you look at the pic of my engine you see a cool set of headers but on the other side were two downdraft Winfield Carbs. Ed did a quick adjustment of them and the car never ran so good.

I have been scanning some pics and will do a good report probably on the Model "A" section cus I was driving a 29 Roadster Pickup.

Here is another pic of one of Ed's Model T race cars.


Tim

[mngreen]

I am told by the previous owner of my '31 cabriolet that its Model B engine with Cragar OHV conversion was done by Wes Cooper in the mid 1970s.

Any more pictures with Cooper and/or Jackson?

[gz]

I remember Wes Cooper at the LA area swap meets when I was a kid. From memory, he used to drive a slightly modified 1934 coupe with a Gilmore spare tire cover. There was another guy known as Rotten Ralph (I never knew his real name), he was another LA swap meet regular and always had a big selection of Winfield carburetors for sale. Him and Cooper used to hang out together. I think when I was very young, I was at an event at the Bill and Mike La Rosa's house and Ed Winfield was there as well as a lot of the other LA area four-banger gurus.

The two-up, two-down Winfield race car was resurrected a few years ago by a SoCal collector and participated at the Historic Races at Laguna Seca after it was completed.

When did Ed Winfield pass away?

[Buckelew]

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Originally Posted by gz

When did Ed Winfield pass away?

April 15, 1982

[BCCHOPIT]

Very cool thanks for posting...